Calendar

February 2023:      

WASH MY SOUL IN THE RIVER'S FLOW

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 14 Feb
Healesville: Tues 21 Feb

• Australia - 2021
• Documentary  95m   PG

The lives and love story of Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach as told in their songs and spoken word stories in the 2004 concert Kura Tungar - Songs from the River. The concert was a collaboration between singer-songwriters Roach and Hunter with Paul Grabowsky and the 22- piece Australian Art Orchestra. Unmissable.

March 2023:

DELICIOUS

Time: 7.30pm                                                                                Warburton: Tues 14 March                                                            Healesville: Tues 21 March                                                                        

•  France - 2021
•  Comedy/drama   112m    M    (sub-titled)                                                                         

In France 1789, just prior to the French Revolution, a chef who has been sacked by his master finds the courage to free himself from being a servant to open the first restaurant. All this at a time when gastronomy had been strictly the domain of aristocrats. Directed by Eric Besnard.

April 2023:              

MY SALINGER YEAR

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 11 April
Healesville: Tues 18 April

• USA - 2020
• Drama  101m    M

Based on the memoir of the same name by Joanna Rakoff. After graduating, Joanna is hired as an assistant to the stoic, old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. As she reads the heart-wrenching letters sent to Salinger she becomes reluctant to send the agency's impersonal standard reply. Directed by Phillippe Falardeau and starring Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver.

COMPARTMENT NO. 6

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton:  N.B.  postponed until Tues 16 May
Healesville: Tues 16 May

• Finland - 2021
• Drama    107m   MA    (sub-titled)
  

As a train weaves its way to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life and have them face truths about human connection.

Cannes 2021: Winner - Grand Prix

BELFAST

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 13 June
Healesville: Tues 20 June

• UK - 2021

• Drama/biography    98m   M                           

A young boy and his working-class family experience the tumultuous late-1960s in Northern Ireland. An uplifting story despite the tragic setting. Belfast is a movie straight from director Kenneth Branagh's own experience.

Oscars 2022: Winner - Best Original Screenplay

EIFFEL

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 11 July
Healesville: Tues 18 July

• France - 2021
• Drama   108m    M      (sub-titled)

As Gustave Eiffel completes his collaboration on the Statue of Liberty, he is pressured by the French government to create a spectacular design for the 1889 Paris World Fair. Inspiration comes when he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. This handsomely- produced period drama stars Roman Duris.

BREAKING AWAY

Time: 7.30pm                                                                              Warburton: Tues 8 Aug                                                                Healesville: Tues 15 Aug

• USA - 1979
• Comedy/drama  92m    PG

Dave and his working-class friends spend their post-high school days in Bloomington, Indiana sparring with snobby students from the local university and trying to realise Dave's dream of competitive bicycle racing.

Peter Yates' funny, intelligent film is a real crowd-pleaser.                       

THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC

Time: 7.30pm                                                                               Warburton: Tues 13 Sept                                                             Healesville: Tues 20 Sept

• UK - 2016
• Drama/romance    92m       PG
  

A quirky young woman (Jessica Brown Findlay) who dreams of writing a successful children's book is forced to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction. She finds an unlikely mentor in a grumpy, loveless, wealthy neighbour (Tom Wilkinson) who happens to be a brilliant horticulturist. Directed by Simon Aboud.

THE TRANSLATORS

Time: 7.30pm                                                                                  Warburton: Tues 10 Oct                                                              Healesville: Tues 17 Oct

•   France
  
•   Mystery/thriller  105m   M        (sub-titled)
  

Nine translators are confined in a luxurious bunker to work on a top-secret mauscript. When the first ten pages of the book mysteriously appear online, the dream job soon turns into a living nightmare. Directed by Regis Rainsard.

November 2023:  

THE COMMITMENTS

Time: 7.30pm                                                                               Warburton: Tues 14 Nov                                                              Healesville: Tues 21 Nov

• Ireland/UK/USA
• Drama     118m     M  
  

A young unemployed Dublin man decides to put together a soul band drawn from the Irish working-class. With its gritty originality and fresh interpretations of well-known songs, Alan Parker's film became a cult classic..

BAFTA winner: Best Film 1992

LANGUAGE LESSONS

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 12 Dec
Healesville: Tues 19 Dec

• USA - 2021
• Comedy/drama   91m     M

When his husband surprises him with an online course in Spanish, Adam is unsure of how this will fit into his structured life. When tragedy strikes, the Spanish teacher becomes a lifeline Adam didn't know he needed. Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass co-star in this engaging two-hander which Morales also directs.